Degree of separation for media artifact discovery

• US 20090063973A1
• Filed: 08/29/2007
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Payton, Tirrell
• Granted Patent: US 10,289,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2300/204 with nitrogen-containing functional groups, e.g. aminoxides, nitriles, guanidines
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2300/404 Biocides, antimicrobial agents, antiseptic agents
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2300/416 Anti-neoplastic or anti-proliferative or anti-restenosis or anti-angiogenic agents, e.g. paclitaxel, sirolimus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for degree of separation for media artifact discovery. A method includes visually highlighting a media artifact on a Web page in response to a user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media, and generating for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

visually highlighting a media artifact on a Web page in response to a user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media; and

generating for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the media artifact is selected from the group consisting of movie titles, actors, audio artists, album titles, publications, song titles and singers.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein visually highlighting comprises altering an appearance of the media artifact.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein altering comprises underlining the media artifact.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein altering comprises bolding the media artifact.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the user'"'"'s media preferences are selected from the group consisting of preferred movie titles, preferred actors, preferred audio artists, preferred album titles, preferred publications, preferred song titles and preferred singers.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the core range of media preferences comprising a numerical indication representing a range of information that is tangential to a primary media preference in which the user may be interested.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein generating comprises:

matching the media artifact against the user'"'"'s media preferences and the core range of media preferences with data in a store of media artifact information, the matching comprising identifying one or more relationships between the media artifact against the user'"'"'s media preferences, the core range of media preferences and the data in the store.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying the generated additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in a pop-up window.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

visually highlighting a media artifact in the pop-up window in response to the user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media; and

generating for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising displaying the generated additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in a second pop-lip window.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the user action is selected from the group consisting of mouse movement, mouse clicking, keyboard input and touch input.

13. A method comprising:

in a network of interconnected computers, storing information related to media artifacts on a server;

storing a user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media on the server;

visually highlighting a media artifact on a Web page in response to a user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media; and

generating for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action, the user action selected from the group consisting of mouse movement, mouse clicking, keyboard input and touch input.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the media artifacts are selected from the group consisting of movie titles, actors, audio artists, album titles, publications, song titles and singers.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein visually highlighting comprises altering an appearance of the media artifact.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein altering comprises underlining the media artifact.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein altering comprises bolding the media artifact.

18. The method of claim 13 wherein the user'"'"'s media preferences are selected from the group consisting of preferred movie titles, preferred actors, preferred audio artists, preferred album titles, preferred publications, preferred song titles and preferred singers.

19. The method of claim 13 wherein the core range of media preferences comprising a pictorial indication representing a range of information that is tangential to a primary media preference in which the user may be interested.

20. The method of claim 13 wherein generating comprises:

matching the media artifact against the user'"'"'s media preferences and the core range of media preferences with data in the store of media artifact information, the matching comprising identifying one or more relationships between the media artifact against the user'"'"'s media preferences, the core range of media preferences and the data in the store.

21. The method of claim 13 further comprising displaying the generated additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in a pop-up window.

22. The method of claim 21 further comprising:

visually highlighting a media artifact in the pop-up window in response to the user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media; and

generating for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action.

23. The method of claim 22 further comprising displaying the generated additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in a second pop-up window.

24. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in an information carrier, for discovering new media, the computer program product being operable to cause data processing apparatus to:

visually highlight a media artifact on a Web page in response to a user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media; and

generate for display to a user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action.

25. The computer program product of claim 24 wherein the media artifact is selected from the group consisting of movie titles, actors, audio artists, album titles, publications, song titles and singers.

26. The computer program product of claim 24 wherein visually highlighting comprises altering an appearance of the media artifact.

27. The computer program product of claim 24 wherein the user'"'"'s media preferences are selected from the group consisting of preferred movie titles, preferred actors, preferred audio artists, preferred album titles, preferred publications, preferred song titles and preferred singers.

28. The computer program product of claim 24 wherein the core range of media preferences comprising a numerical indication representing a range of information that is tangential to a primary media preference in which the user may be interested.

29. The computer program product of claim 24 wherein generating comprises:

matching the media artifact against the user'"'"'s media preferences and the core range of media preferences with data in a store of media artifact information, the matching comprising identifying one or more relationships between the media artifact against the user'"'"'s media preferences, the core range of media preferences and the data in the store.

30. The computer program product of claim 24 further operable to cause data processing apparatus to:

display the generated additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in a pop-up window.

31. The computer program product of claim 30 further operable to cause data processing apparatus to:

visually highlight a media artifact in the pop-up window in response to a user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media; and

generate for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action.

32. The computer program product of claim 31 further operable to cause data processing apparatus to:

display the generated additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in a second pop-up window.

33. The computer program product of claim 24 wherein the user action is selected from the group consisting of mouse movement, mouse clicking, keyboard input and touch input.

34. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in an information carrier, for discovering new media, the computer program product being operable to cause data processing apparatus to:

in a network of interconnected computers, store information related to media artifacts on a server;

store a user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media on the server;

visually highlight a media artifact on a Web page in response to the user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media; and

generate for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action, the user action selected from the group consisting of mouse movement, mouse clicking, keyboard input and touch input.

35. The computer program product of claim 34 wherein the media artifacts are selected from the group consisting of movie titles, actors, audio artists, album titles, publications, song titles and singers.

36. The computer program product of claim 34 wherein the core range of media preferences comprising a pictorial indication representing a range of information that is tangential to a primary preference in which the user may be interested.

37. The computer program product of claim 34 wherein generating comprises:

matching the media artifact against the user'"'"'s media preferences and the core range of media preferences with data in the store of media artifact information, the matching comprising identifying one or more relationships between the media artifact against the user'"'"'s media preferences, the core range of media preferences and the data in the store.

38. The computer program product of claim 34 further comprising displaying the generated additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in a pop-up window.

39. The computer program product of claim 38 further comprising:

visually highlighting a media artifact in the pop-up window in response to a user'"'"'s media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media; and

generating for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action.

40. The computer program product of claim 39 further comprising displaying the generated additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in a second pop-up window.

41. A method comprising:

in a network, sending user media preferences relating to media artifacts and how distant from a core range of media preferences a user wants to engage more media from a client to a server;

loading a web page on the client, the web page comprising a visually highlighted media artifact;

activating the visually highlighted media artifact on the web page; and

in response to activating, receiving additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the user media preferences from the server for display to the user.

42. The method of claim 41 wherein the media artifacts are selected from the group consisting of movie titles, actors, audio artists, album titles, publications, song titles and singers.

43. The method of claim 41 wherein the distance from a core range of media preferences comprises a numerical indication representing a range of information that is tangential to a primary media preference in which the user may be interested.

44. The method of claim 41 wherein the visually highlighted media artifact comprises a match among the media artifact, the user'"'"'s media preferences, the core range of media preferences and data in a store of media artifact information in the server.

45. The method of claim 41 wherein the received additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the user media preferences is displayed in a pop-up window.

46. The method of claim 45 further comprising:

activating a visually highlighted media artifact on the pop-up window; and

in response to activating, receiving additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact in the pop-up window and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the user media preferences from the server for display to the user.

47. The method of claim 46 wherein the received additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact in the pop-up window and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the user media preferences is displayed in a second pop-up window.

48. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in an information carrier, for discovering new media, the computer program product being operable to cause data processing apparatus to:

in a network, send user media preferences relating to media artifacts and how distant from a core range of media preferences a user wants to engage more media from a client to a server;

load a web page on the client, the web page comprising a visually highlighted media artifact;

activated the visually highlighted media artifact on the web page; and

in response to activating, receive additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the user media preferences from the server.

49. The computer program product of claim 48 wherein the distance from a core range of media preferences comprises a numerical indication representing a range of information that is tangential to a primary media preference in which the user may be interested.

50. The computer program product of claim 48 wherein the visually highlighted media artifact comprises a match among the media artifact, the user'"'"'s media preferences, the core range of media preferences and data in a store of media artifact information in the server.

51. The computer program product of claim 48 wherein the received additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the user media preferences is displayed in a pop-up window.

52. A graphical user interface (GUI) comprising:

a display comprising user-selectable media artifacts, user-selectable ratings of the media artifacts, and user-selectable preference indicators preference comprising a numerical indication of how distant from a core range of media preferences a user wants to engage more media.

53. The GUI of claim 52 wherein the media artifacts are selected from the group consisting of movie titles, actors, audio artists, album titles, publications, song titles and singers.

54. The GUI of claim 52 wherein the ratings are selected from the group consisting of numerical indicators and pictorial indicators.